Mestizo Activists : " "We have to kiss the floor on which Martin Luther King walked"

May 13 2003

A hora es el momento. A Spanish-speaking president, one who can do more than stumble through a few phrases at a political rally, may be nowhere on the horizon, but for activists like Rosa Clemente, the time to forge a powerful Latino bloc is now.

Even with the latest census showing that some 37 million Latinos now live in the United States—making us by some measures the nation's new largest minority—we have no place at the political table.

Increasingly, Latino activists are studying the example set by black leaders trying to win equality. "We have to say thank you to the African American community and the African American struggle," says Lopez. "We have to kiss the floor on which Martin Luther King walked, because it was them who put the struggle for civil rights out there, and it was them who framed the issue clearly."

African Americans and Latinos share many of the same problems, Clemente argues. She rattles them off: "Economic oppression. Economic exploitation. Police brutality. Lack of housing. Lack of access to health care. Lack of access to education."

IT'S WORSE IN MEXICO WHERE YOU HAVE TOTAL CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hmmmmmmmm......

WHY DON'T YOU GET YOUR REVOLUTIONARY BROWN BUTTS BACK SOUTH OF THE BORDER????

You don't see whites fleeing to Mexico do you? (or to any non-white nation, hmmm....) Perhaps because ONLY WHITES HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR CIVILIZATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The gall they have to come here from a craphole like Mexico, and then be these revolutionary wanna-be rabble rousers with the brown fist emblem makes me want to vomit. They just can't stand the fact that they are losers here just as much as in mexico, they have to blame it on the "white-man". Just wait until White Nationalists take control of the US and need more land for our beautiful white babies. THAT'LL REALLY give you something to bitch about.

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Its amazing that the Mestizos are willing to go through all the trouble and danger to get here so that they can be so terribly oppressed!